Badge-fastener.



No. 632,845. Patented SEpL'IZ, I899.

J. P. A. PETSCH.

BADGE FASTENEB.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1399.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,845, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed April 19, 1899. Serial No. 713,661. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PHILLIP A. PETsCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Badge-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to devices designed to affix badges, jewelry, or other ornaments to wearing-apparel, and has for its object the construction of a simple fastener by which the badge or other article can be easily fastened to ones garment and readily removed. I accomplish this object by means of the device illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my fastener with a badge in place therein. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of my device detached from the garment. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken through one of the hooks E, with the badge B in place in the fastener hanging on the hook E, ready to be affixed to the garment F. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section taken on the same line as Fig. 3 after the fastener has been affixed to the garment.

The badge is attached to the fastener as follows: The upper end of the badge, (usually a ribbon or in the shape of one,) as B, is passed through the open rear part of the frame A into the frame, and while the upper end of the badge projects into the frame the bar D, on which are rigidly affixed the two wire hooks E, is rotated by means of the thumb-piece O. This will cause the hooks E to pass through the badge and hold it in the position shown in Fig. 3. The hooks E are substantially circular in shape from that point therein marked E to the end, which is sharp. The hooks E have shanks E, being that part of the hooks lying between the bends E and the bar D. These shanks project radially out of the bar D, at the end of which is the bend E. The purpose ofgiving to the hook this bend will be apparent in Figs. 3 and I when we consider that the badge after being placed in the fastener, as shown in Fig. 3, will drop into the bend and be suspended therefrom. If the badge is pulled down, it will seat itself in the bend, and the bar D Will only rotate backward to a point where the bend is in line with the badge, at which point the rotation of the bar D will cease. This will retract the sharpened end of the hooks back into the frame A and out of the way, and the badge will be held in the fastener. (Pulling the badge will not remove it.) This will secure the badge in the fastener until it is desired to attach the badge to the garment, which is accomplished by giving the rod D (the fastener being pressed against the garment at the point where it is desired to fasten the same) a little more than half a revolution from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 4. In giving it this revolutionthe hook will pass through the garment F twice (attaching the badge securely thereto) and through the badge once again. The bend E has now passed from a depending position, Fig. 3, into a position, Fig. 4, in which it is suspended from the garment. removed from the garment by giving the rod D a revolution reversely to that by which it is attached to the garment from the position shown in Fig. 4 to that shown in Fig. 3, and it is removed from the fastener by giving the rod another reverse revolution, when the badge may be removed.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A badge-fastener, comprising the main body portion A, rod D rotatively mounted therein having circular hooks E mounted thereon, with the bend E therein, the rod having the thumb-pieces O.

2. In a badge-fastener, the combination of the frame A, with the rod D rotatively mounted therein, circular hooks E projecting from said rod, sharp at the free end and having a bend as E therein, the rod having thumbpieces 0.

3. A fastener for attaching badges, jewelry, or other articles to a garment, comprising a frame having bearings for a rod carrying circular hooks adapted to pierce the garment and attach to it a badge or other article; a revoluble rod mounted in said frame and having attaching hooks affiXed thereto; and thumb-pieces mounted on the ends of said rod and projecting beyond the ends of the frame, substantially as shown and described.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 12th day of April, 1899, at Los Angeles, California.

JOHN PHILLIP A. PETSGH.

WVitnesses:

G. E. HARPHAM, HENRY T. HAZARD.

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